New series 'Dog Tales' inspired by Biennale Arte Venezia
By Fashionoffice's publisher Karin Sawetz
During the last two decades, Fashionoffice has reported from time to time from the Biennale Arte Venezia. This year, the theme is 'Viva Arte Viva' and I try out another approach to the art experience. I pack it into a short series with the title 'Dog Tales'. Many of the associations are collected in the tradition of automatic writing where the subconsciousness, memories of dreams where situations that really happened are reworked - from solving to new-interpreting - in a surrealistic way and hard facts of the currently running Biennale Venezia are mixed. 'Viva Arte Viva' is the motto of Biennale Arte Venezia 2017 and the supporting idea behind the new series 'Dog Tales'.
fig.: Why is it entitled 'Dog Tales'?
Because my currently most favorite skirt is made of a fabric with the print of a prominent painting by Hondecoeter. The name sounds in German like 'dog cur'. The decision to choose the title 'Dog Tales' was accidental but is a nice reference to the importance of the reviving role of art for fashion. Viva Arte Viva! (The image on this page shows the skirt.)
Dog Tales
I first thought he is Caucasian; but when he landed with the hot air balloon I saw that Marc Cabana is an Asian. His cabana was more like a cabin and muted into a sort of Venetian gondola and then into an ordinary hot air balloon basket and back again. The balloon itself was striped in changing colors - one time it was yellow and red, then it was blue and green; but it only changed from one scene to the other and not during one. While the coloring is flexible, the appeal of the balloon is always the same: it's like taken from a vintage postcard of an original black/white photograph which is colored afterwards.
Marc Cabana stood there in his basket/gondola/cabin, sinking deeper and deeper to earth. Then the gondola muted into a ship which grew to a huge ocean liner such as the ones which outsize the prominent ensemble of the Piazza San Marco at the Mediterranean Sea.
The Piazza San Marco - probably the name giver of Marc (?) Cabana, is not far away from the Giardini where the pavilions of the world's countries are located. Yes, they could appear like cabanas! Biennale Arte Venezia was established in 1895; the pavilions were built during a time-span of several decades. Not every country has an own and even the amount of participating countries isn't the same each two years. In 2017, the theme is 'Viva Arte Viva' and as far as I have previewed contributions by several countries, Biennale Arte 2017 will become very multi-faceted. Currently, labiennale.org live streams the press conference.
Annotation: The pavilion I'm very interested in is the one by China where contemporary as well as traditional art and craft are theme. Guide to Asian pavilions
fig.: Why is it entitled 'Dog Tales'?
Because my currently most favorite skirt is made of a fabric with the print of a prominent painting by Hondecoeter. The name sounds in German like 'dog cur'. The decision to choose the title 'Dog Tales' was accidental but is a nice reference to the importance of the reviving role of art for fashion. Viva Arte Viva! (The image on this page shows the skirt.)
Dog Tales
I first thought he is Caucasian; but when he landed with the hot air balloon I saw that Marc Cabana is an Asian. His cabana was more like a cabin and muted into a sort of Venetian gondola and then into an ordinary hot air balloon basket and back again. The balloon itself was striped in changing colors - one time it was yellow and red, then it was blue and green; but it only changed from one scene to the other and not during one. While the coloring is flexible, the appeal of the balloon is always the same: it's like taken from a vintage postcard of an original black/white photograph which is colored afterwards.
Marc Cabana stood there in his basket/gondola/cabin, sinking deeper and deeper to earth. Then the gondola muted into a ship which grew to a huge ocean liner such as the ones which outsize the prominent ensemble of the Piazza San Marco at the Mediterranean Sea.
The Piazza San Marco - probably the name giver of Marc (?) Cabana, is not far away from the Giardini where the pavilions of the world's countries are located. Yes, they could appear like cabanas! Biennale Arte Venezia was established in 1895; the pavilions were built during a time-span of several decades. Not every country has an own and even the amount of participating countries isn't the same each two years. In 2017, the theme is 'Viva Arte Viva' and as far as I have previewed contributions by several countries, Biennale Arte 2017 will become very multi-faceted. Currently, labiennale.org live streams the press conference.
Annotation: The pavilion I'm very interested in is the one by China where contemporary as well as traditional art and craft are theme. Guide to Asian pavilions
